Human Trafficking

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Tonight I watched "Girl in Room 13" on Lifetime. It was about a young girl who is hoodwinked into meeting up with her old love interest after she had recently gotten away from him and started a new life. He was a drug seller and trafficker of young girls. (It was doubly meaningful because the actress that played the mother was Anne Heche who recently was in a car accident and lost her life.) This is scary subject matter. I have written about this subject on other platforms in the past and have had personal experience. It is now a $150 Billion global industry annually. It is a crime because of the violation of the victim's rights, and the movement through coercion and exploitation involved. It includes the moving, gathering, receiving, and keeping of humans by threat, coercion, force, or deception. This illegal trade involves women and children. It includes forced labor, sexual slavery, and commercial exploitation. It can also include the extraction of human organs or tissue and surrogacy(giving birth as a surrogate mother). The hospitality industry(housing the trafficked), banking system(to launder the money), transportation industry(sending them out of state or country), and internet platforms( advertising)are all used in this type of crime.